50 years of peace protest
Nuclear proliferation and development continue.
What can be done to help ‘wounded’ peace protestors?
What is the current situation?
Non-Proliferation Treaty sabotage
UK Trident replacement progressing
Attempts to prevent perceived enemies from obtaining nuclear weapons
The Doomsday Clock is at
5 to midnight
This symbolic clock maintained since 1947 by the board of the Directors of the Bulleting of the Atomic Scientists at Chicago University uses the analogy of the human race being at a time that is “minutes to midnight” where midnight represents “catastrophic destruction”.
We describe 3 dialogical positions
The rulers’ ideology behind nuclear weapons
The complacent subject’s ion
The complacent subject’s position
The complacent subject’s position
The citizen activist’s position
In an argument similar to Blair’s about going to
war in Iraq that we have gone so far we cannot
turn back now, they state we have invested so much we might as well hold on to it just in case.
Just in case
The idea of insurance seems a familiar and sensible plan and appeals to our ordinary and everyday sense of needing to be careful and protect against danger.
Both countries continue to cement their “Special relationship” creating a wider rationality arising from a sense of alliance. Both aim at status and prestige; the UK by association with the super-power and the US by the continued subservience of its point of origin and a toe hold into Europe.
Learned Helplessness
Helplessness leads many people to remain afraid, alert and cautious; a state that in itself makes people very receptive to any destabilising and threatening situation.
Dissent and debate in the face of this appeal to national authority and tradition can feel daunting and make protest seem deviant.
Where does this leave peace protestors?
When we grew up, protestors were portrayed as eccentric, old fashioned and helpless on the one hand or as subversive and against the safety first policy at the heart of the nation.
The core aim for activists is protesting to increase awareness of both the rulers and the ruled of the damaging consequences of having weapons of mass destruction.
Peace activist message
Any usage would only lead to Mutually Assured Destruction
How can activists argue their case more effectively?
How can peace activists work alongside, not against, whilst describing invitations to join the spin?
Push points for peace activists
Advantages to:
maintaining human life
Equality
Environment
Example of more effective protest
Peace protestors feel manipulated, hopeless and outraged
Want to expose manipulation and feel empowered.
Going head to head
Either question the motives and integrity of the leaders, which results in a battle of words and perpetuates the manipulation
Realism without hype
Or provide dependable, accurate, succinct information.
- Войдите, чтобы оставлять комментарии